Once up on a time in Telangana

24 years ago, when I am 17 years old, today my 12th standard results are getting opened up. With around 4 to 5 friends I am going to an internet café where we can check the results. 

Heavy sounds rumbling around. 

The clouds are black and thick. While I am thinking about heavy rain, immediately it started raining. We started running towards the internet cafe which is nearby and are standing out of the internet café waiting for our turn to check out our results. 

Even in this heavy rain while thunders rumbling and with the huge line waiting for their turn shouting to each other predicting their results before it gets revealed, I can sense the smell of lavender. 

This smell is very pleasant.  

I am turning my head around to see from where this beautiful fragrance is getting to us.  

Between the random sounds of applauds, laughs, rain droplets, and vehicles a low tone with a gentle pitch a female voice is disturbing me. 

I am searching for this voice in a group of people present here. I can see a girl under the sky-blue umbrella talking to someone on mobile. While walking towards her, I can sense the intensity of the lavender fragrance is getting increased and her voice is getting clearer. She is looking like an angel with a fair skin tone, small chin, little lips, and brown eyes leaving her curly hair to fly in the air.  

Without the next thought, I am talking to her. 

Excuse me. You are looking good! 

Listening to this she is replying, 

Beautiful girl: I know that I am looking good! Thanks for reminding me and now go do your work. 

I am not shocked to listen to these words because Attitude is the best ornament that a girl can wear. 

I am replying to her, 

You are looking good! by this, I meant that you are looking kind. So, can you share your umbrella with me until the rain gets slowed down? 

While she is trying to say something, one of my friends is coming towards us shouting that I scored 98%. Seeing him coming towards us, I am stepping back about 2 steps and turning to him saying that,  

“scoring 98% is not an achievement but, getting a small place under this girl’s umbrella is an achievement. So, you can go back and check your results leaving us for some time.” 

My friend: But, Pavan! That girl is leaving in the car. Now how can I leave you both separately for some time? So better we will go check my results. 

I am feeling very depressed because I did not even get a chance to ask her name and any details that would help me to see her again. Looking at me in this situation, my friend is uttering slowly, 

My friend: She lives in our colony.  

And not only that but also her father works for NASA. Her parents are very strict and we don’t see her outside of her house regularly. She comes out of her house very rarely and it is impossible to talk to her so, don’t think of her anymore and enjoy your score. 

My charm is coming back to me. 

I am very much excited to get to know about her and with a huge smile, I replying to my friend that, it is great to know about her. Even though she doesn’t come out of her house regularly, even though their parents are very strict, even though she is very tough to get impressed and even though she doesn’t like to be in a relationship. Remember, nothing can stop me to reach her heart. Unless it is already occupied by someone. 

So, do you know whether she is in a relationship or not? 

My friend: I am saying that she comes out of her house very rarely and her parents are very strict. How can you think that she can have a boyfriend? Though I am not sure about that because I even don’t know her name. 

Listening to these words I am getting a little confidence that she might be single and is ready to mingle. 

I am saying to my friend that,  

so we will confirm this tomorrow that, whether she is single or not. 

My friend: The idea is nice. But how will we confirm that? 

I am saying to my friend that, only one person in this world can answer this. Can you guess who is that? 

My friend: Macha, this is not mee lo avaru kotteshwarulu game show that you can ask me questions and I will get huge money as a prize if I answer them correctly. So, stop dragging this and let me know who can confirm that? 

With a huge smile, I am revealing that the only person who can confirm whether she is in a relationship or not is, herself. 

My friend: Wonderful! So, how are we going to ask her? Do we have her mobile number? Is she coming out tomorrow again? Do you know any of her friends who can give her details to us? 

Listening to his words, I am replying that, though I don’t have her mobile number, though she is not coming out tomorrow. Still, I don’t know her friends who can give me her mobile number. I have a friend who knows her house address. So, we will go to her house and find out whether she is having a boyfriend or not, directly by asking her. 

My friend: Macha, please don’t involve me in this. How can we go to her house directly? We even don’t know anything about her and even she doesn’t know who we are. If we get caught to her father and if he complaints about this in my home then, definitely my mother will kill me. So, don’t try to drag me in this and I cannot come with you to her house but, I can show you her house only if you promise to me that, you will not bring my name at any point in time in their house. 

Seeing him very nervous and scared, I am saying to him that, 

Okay! My friend. You don’t need to come to her house. In fact, it is better that I go alone to their house instead of going along with you. Because you might feel lonely if I talk to her separately leaving you aside. 

Listening to these words my friend is staring at me without talking for a couple of seconds. After a couple of seconds, he is replying that, 

My Friend: Oh, you have already started to think that, if I come with you, you both will talk separately in their house leaving me alone; As if, her father is ready to welcome you to their house by opening their doors. 

To these words, I am replying, 

Everything will be cleared by the end of tomorrow, my friend. Just keep watching my screenplay. 

It's almost 9 am and I have almost reached the beautiful girl's house. It is a two-storied building located amid the big garden. There is no one in the entrance which means I can enter into the gate without any one's permission. Though there is a little tension inside me, I am managing myself remembering the script that I have practiced to enter into their house. The script is as below, 

’’’I will go to their house and I will talk to her father saying about me that, I will stay nearby and I scored 98% in my 12th standard and I would like to study space science and become a space scientist like you. So, kindly help me to choose my career path. This helps me to work with NASA like you.’’’ 

Remembering the above script, I am walking towards their main door. I can see that the door is already opened. Appreciating my luck, I am thinking whether to ring the bell which is present beside me or to enter into directly. I am peeping into the main door to see if I can see anyone. I can see a big screen which is covering the entire 8 X 8 feet wall in their hall on which the video of our planet earth orbiting around the sun is getting played. This is the first time I am watching the earth from outer space video. Watching with more excitement I stepped into their hall without ringing the bell.  

[Girl crying sounds.] 

I can hear a girl crying desperately shouting, 

Girl: ‘leave me.’ ‘Let me go.’ 

Male voice: Doctor, please leave your investigation over here. Otherwise, your daughter and you both will be killed. 

Doctor: I have all the proofs and this is for the sake of the whole world. This is all nation’s priority not particular to a single nation. I will publish this article and I will be going to discuss this with ISRO, my fellow scientists, and other nations scientists also. We need to find the best solution for this and this can be achieved with the unity of all great nations only. Otherwise, everything which we have developed till now and developing for the future is going to be wasted. Human life is not going to be in existence if we don’t take any effective measures right now. I don’t want, we humans to end up as dinosaurs which got extinct completely. 

Male voice: I have already told you that this is going to create chaos in the public and we cannot control this phenomenon in any means. We cannot let this known to everyone because they will not let us do what we are going to do to save us. 

Their conversation is going on. The girl is still weeping. I can understand that someone is threatening the doctor not to share some important findings to the world publicly. 

I am thinking about what to do now? Should I call the police? Should I go upstairs to fight them? I don’t know how many people are present over there. While I am thinking about the various options that I am having, I can see a big meteor coming and hitting Antarctica on the big screen because of this the ice in the continent is getting melted and the land on this earth is getting submerged underwater. Now I am realizing that this video is the simulation of the future that is going to happen on our planet. This is very shocking. I am shivering and sweat is coming out of my body. I am very tensed now.  

What should I do?  

Thinking that, calling the police is the best option, I going out of the house. Before leaving out I am taking the pen drive that is connected to the monitor on the wall which is having this simulation. 

I am running out of the house, I stopped running after hearing the sound of Gunshot! 

Tears in my eyes. 

I don’t know who died and I am not able to go back to their house. While I am turning my head to their house, I can hear one more gunshot.  

I came here towards wishing to talk to the beautiful girl but, I think I cannot talk to her in my life.